Lord Hylton: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	What precautions they are taking against the possible spread of blue-tongue cattle disease to Britain.

Lord Rooker: The natterjack toad is fully protected in UK law under Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (as amended) and Schedule 2 of the Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 1994. It is also protected in European law under Appendix 2 of the Bern Convention.
	On the north-west coast of England, the natterjack toad's key habitats receive additional protection as special areas of conservation (SACs). For example, Morecambe Bay and the Sefton Coast, Ainsdale Sand Dunes and Cabin Hill National Nature Reserves are specifically owned and managed by Natural England to protect the natterjack toad and its sand dune habitats. The Sefton Coast Partnership is currently developing a new nature conservation strategy and biodiversity delivery plan for the whole Sefton Coast: this also reflects the need to conserve natterjack toad populations. There are strict tests for any development which could have adverse impacts on SAC habitats, and Natural England must be consulted in all cases.
	Almost all the natterjack toad populations in Cumbria are found within sites of special scientific interest designated under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and this affords a further degree of protection.
	The Wealth of Wildlife project was launched on 21 April 2007 as the flagship project of the Cumbria Biodiversity Partnership. Over £860,000 has been provided by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Rural Regeneration Cumbria and the landfill tax to deliver over three years a range of conservation objectives for rare and threatened species and habitats, including the natterjack toad. The natterjack toad is one of four biodiversity action plan species included in a joint project between Natural England and the Herpetological Conservation Trust.

Lord Drayson: As part of the government commitment to good mental health and well-being for Armed Forces personnel and veterans, officials from the MoD, the UK health departments and Combat Stress, advised by national clinical experts, have been working to develop a new community-based model of mental health services for veterans, designed to provide health professionals with access to expert understanding of veterans' mental health problems and appropriate treatment options. Since 1948, successive Governments have held that the NHS should be the main provider of health care for veterans. Based on NHS practice and procedures, the new service would deliver culturally sensitive, evidence-based interventions through a network of public, private and charitable providers; an aim of the new model would be to integrate Combat Stress into NHS commissioning arrangements. We are looking to pilot the model at sites across the UK, with the first to be launched shortly. Discussions are well advanced in selection and setting-up of sites which we expect to be located in a range of trusts across the UK. The pilots would run for two years, after which there would be an independent evaluation of effectiveness, including value for money. An important part of the initiative is that the pilots should provide planning data on the likely demands for a nationwide veterans' service.
	With regard to public funding of Combat Stress, war pensions funding would continue to be provided to qualifying war pensioners for residential care at the Society's homes. Officials are currently in discussion with the Society on fee levels for 2007-08 and we expect to announce increases shortly.

Department for Constitutional Affairs: Telephone Numbers

Lord Evans of Temple Guiting: My department has 12 0500 numbers, seven 0800 numbers; 53 0845 numbers, 43 0870 numbers and one 0900 number, that are in use for the public. In addition there are a further 481 0870 numbers that are used internally on its Goldfax system. The department does not keep a central record of all the services that can be accessed through each of the numbers. That information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. The revenue received from the 0900 number, which is used for the bankruptcy and company court search line, between April 2005 (when the line came into operation) and September 2006, was £59,373.43.
	The department's central recruitment unit uses 41 0870 numbers for its recruitment campaigns. The revenue received between September 2004-September 2006 was £7,847.74. HM Land Registry operates a number of 0870 numbers for land registry services and the revenue from these was £426,990.15 for the period September 2004 to September 2006.

Lord Drayson: The MoD is committed to openly publishing statistics on the number of service casualties on operations. Information on military personnel casualties and fatalities in Iraq and Afghanistan is published on the MoD website (www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/FactSheets/OperationsFactsheets).
	Casualty data on the MoD website are updated on a two weekly basis, two weeks in arrears, with the fatality data updated following incidents in line with the next of kin informing process.
	Between 28 May 2006 and 24 April 2007 the following British service personnel died (from any cause) in Iraq:
	
		
			 Name Age Regiment 
			 Kingsman Alan Jones 20 2nd Battalion Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (2 Lancs) 
			 Corporal Ben Leaning 24 Queen's Royal Lancers (QRL) 
			 Trooper Kristen Turton 27 QRL 
			 Colour Sergeant M L Powell 37 Parachute Regiment (PARA) 
			 Sergeant Mark J McLaren 27 Royal Air Force (RAF) 
			 Second Lieutenant Joanna Yorke Dyer 24 Intelligence Corps (Int Corps) 
			 Corporal Kris O'Neill 27 Royal Army Medical Corps 
			 Private Eleanor Dlugosz 19 Royal Army Medical Corps 
			 Kingsman Adam James Smith 19 2nd Battalion Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (2 Lancs) 
			 Rifleman Aaron Lincoln 18 2nd Battalion, The Rifles (2 Rifles) 
			 Kingsman Danny John Wilson 28 2 Lancs 
			 Private Jonathon Dany Wysoczan 21 1st Battalion the Staffordshire Regiment (1 Staffs) 
			 Rifleman Daniel Lee Coffey 21 2 Rifles 
			 Private Luke Daniel Simpson 21 1st Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment (1 Yorks) 
			 Second Lieutenant Jonathan Bracho-Cooke 24 2 Lancs 
			 Private Michael Tench 18 2nd Battalion The Light Infantry (2 LI) 
			 Kingsman Alexander William Green 21 2 Lancs 
			 Sergeant Wayne Rees 36 QRL 
			 Sergeant Graham Hesketh 35 2 Lancs 
			 Sergeant Jonathan Hollingsworth 35 PARA 
			 Warrant Officer Class 2 Lee Hopkins 35 Royal Corps of Signals (Signals) 
			 Staff Sergeant Sharron Elliott 34 Int Corps 
			 Corporal Ben Nowak 27 45 Commando Royal Marines 
			 Marine Jason Hylton 33 539 Assault Squadron Royal Marines 
			 Kingsman Jamie Lee Hancock 19 2 Lancs 
			 Lieutenant Tom Tanswell 27 12 Regiment Royal Artillery (12 Regt RA) 
			 Lance Corporal Dennis Brady 37 Royal Army Medical Corps 
			 Gunner Lee Thornton 22 12 Regt RA 
			 Gunner Stephen Robert Wright 20 12 Regt RA 
			 Corporal Matthew Cornish 29 1st Battalion the Light Infantry (1 LI) 
			 Corporal John Johnston Cosby 28 1st Battalion The Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry (1 DDLI) 
			 Lieutenant Tom Mildinhall 26 Queen's Dragoon Guards (QDG) 
			 Lance Corporal Paul Farrelly 27 QDG 
		
	
	No civilian UK government officials died in Iraq in this period. UK consular records show that 17 British civilians died (from any cause) in Iraq in this period. This figure can not be considered definitive as records include only those cases where consular assistance has been sought. The figure does not include British dual nationals or unrepresented foreign nationals. For reasons of confidentiality we are unable to release specific details of these consular cases.
	Between 28 May 2006 (inclusive) and midday 23 April 2007 the following British service personnel died in Afghanistan:
	
		
			 Name Age Regiment 
			 Private Chris Gray 19 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment (1 RANGLIAN) 
			 WO2 Michael Smith 39 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery 
			 Marine Benjamin Reddy 22 42 Commando Royal Marines 
			 Lance Bombardier Liam McLaughlin 21 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery 
			 Marine Scott Summers 23 42 Commando Royal Marines 
			 Marine Jonathan Holland 23 45 Commando Royal Marines 
			 Lance Corporal Mathew Ford 30 45 Commando Royal Marines 
			 Marine Thomas Curry 21 42 Commando Royal Marines 
			 Lance Bombardier James Dwyer 22 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery 
			 Marine Richard J Watson 23 42 Commando Royal Marines 
			 Marine Jonathan Wigley 21 45 Commando Royal Marines 
			 Marine Gary Wright 22 45 Commando Royal Marines 
			 Lance Corporal Paul Muirhead 29 1 Royal Irish (1 RIRISH) 
			 Lance Corporal Luke McCulloch 21 1 RIRISH 
			 Corporal Mark William Wright 27 PARA 
			 Private Craig O'Donnell 24 5th Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland (5 SCOTS) 
			 Flight Lieutenant Steven Johnson 38 RAF 
			 Flight Lieutenant Leigh Anthony Mitchelmore 28 RAF 
			 Flight Lieutenant Gareth Rodney Nicholas 40 RAF 
			 Flight Lieutenant Allan James Squires 39 RAF 
			 Flight Lieutenant Steven Swarbrick 28 RAF 
			 Flight Sergeant Gary Wayne Andrews 48 RAF 
			 Flight Sergeant Stephen Beattie 42 RAF 
			 Flight Sergeant Gerard Martin Bell. 48 RAF 
			 Flight Sergeant Adrian Davies 49 RAF 
			 Sergeant Benjamin James Knight 25 RAF 
			 Sergeant John Joseph Langton 29 RAF 
			 Sergeant Gary Paul Quilliam 42 RAF 
			 Corporal Oliver Simon Dicketts 27 PARA 
			 Marine Joseph David Windall 22 Royal Marines 
			 Lance Corporal Jonathan Peter Hetherington 22 14 Signal Regiment 
			 Corporal Bryan James Budd 29 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment (3 PARA) 
			 Lance Corporal Sean Tansey 26 The Life Guards 
			 Private Leigh Reeves 25 Royal Logistics Corps 
			 Private Andrew Barrie Cutts 19 AIR Assault Support Regiment, Royal Logistics Corps 
			 Captain Alex Eida 29 Royal Horse Artillery 
			 Second Lieutenant Ralph Johnson 24 Household Cavalry Regiment 
			 Lance Corporal Ross Nicholls 27 Blues and Royals 
			 Private Damien Jackson 19 3 PARA 
			 Corporal Peter Thorpe 27 Royal Signals 
			 Lance Corporal Jabron Hashmi 24 Int Corps 
			 Captain David Patten 39 PARA 
			 Sergeant Paul Bartlett 35 Royal Marines 
			 Captain Jim Philippson 29 7 Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery 
		
	
	No civilian UK government officials died in Afghanistan in this period. UK consular records show that no British civilians died (from any cause) in Afghanistan in this period. This figure cannot be considered definitive as records include only those cases where consular assistance has been sought. The figure does not include British dual nationals or unrepresented foreign nationals.

Lord Laird: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Why the Historical Enquiries Team of the Police Service of Northern Ireland is creating a separate collusion investigation unit; what is the purpose of the unit; what is the unit's estimated annual cost; and whether units will be established for other murder categories.

Lord Rooker: The Government's key requirements for a shared future multi-sports stadium are that it will: be operationally viable; meet the needs of Association Football, Rugby Football and Gaelic Games, and be situated in a location acceptable to all three sports bodies. These requirements are specific to this project.

Lord Laird: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Further to the Written Answer by Lord Rooker on 18 April (WA 86) concerning the job application for the Ulster-Scots Agency, under what authority the Agency is required to agree all job advertisements with the Northern Ireland Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure.

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